Professional Examinations in both surgical oncology and in breast cancer surgery

ESSO Advanced Course on Oncoplastic Breast Surgery

Budapest - 14-16 June, 2018

ESSO Course on Electrochemotherapy of Cutaneous and Deep Seated Tumors

Ljubljana - 22-23 October, 2018

CORSiCA Research Project

Conceived in the framework of the EYSAC young researchers' activities, the proposal for the project CORSiCA ‘Complete pathologic response rectal cancers EYSAC.1 Study’ will investigate complete responders’ rectal cancers at the European/Worldwide level.

About 20% of patients with rectal cancers who received neoadjuvant treatment achieve a pathological complete response in the surgical specimen (ypT0). However, about 10% of ypT0 present metastatic nodes and, thus, the identification of surgical specimen with metastatic nodes could be crucial in order to tailor future treatments and improve their chances of cure.

Once accepted, the CORSiCA project will build a large database with the clinical and pathological data of pathologic complete responders, to study ypT0 rectal cancers in relation to the nodal status and, thus, predict the nodal positivity before surgical treatment.

After having conducted at the Italian level a retrospective multicentric study on 230 ypT0 focused on treatment and outcomes, the Research Delegate of the ESSO Young Surgeons and Alumni Club (EYSAC) Steering Committee Dr. Laura Lorenzon (Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli of Rome, Italy) will be the Principal Investigator of this new project.